Item COLD WAR 28/19 - Transcript of interview with director Boris Pokrovsky, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Boris Pokrovsky, Soviet artist and opera director, [1948-1996], relating to the censorship of art and the restrictions placed on the work of artists in the USSR, [1948-1953]; the artistic tastes of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, [1948]-1953; the ideological control on Pokrovsky's work by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR, [1948-1953]; the criticism of art in the USSR, [1948-1953]; Stalin's interference in artistic matters concerning the work of the Bolshoi Theatre company, Moscow, USSR, [1948-1953]; the Soviet anti-cosmopolitan campaign and its effect on art, [1950-1953]; the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors that had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, 1950-1953.